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date=Friday, June 8, 2018, 8:30 PM`desc=In this solo concert program, Ben Folds delivers high-energy rock using the intimacy of just a piano, presented in celebration of Virginia Tech’s Alumni Reunion Weekend and open to all.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?BOset::WSmap::seatmap::performance_ids=A7F68367-112D-4370-B3E0-78578D5FD2EA

date=Friday, June 15, 2018, 7:30 PM`desc=We celebrate the Crooked Road’s Mountains of Music Homecoming this year with a special appearance by singer, songwriter, and mandolin player Sierra Hull.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?BOset::WSmap::seatmap::performance_ids=A24E6855-61F8-405C-B28E-8EEC18010E48

date=Friday, September 14, 2018, 7:30 PM`desc=Celebrate the opening of our season with two greats, Paul Taylor and Pablo Ziegler, who join forces for this passionate performance.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

date=Friday, October 5, 2018, 7:30 PM`desc=The Cuban ensemble El Septeto Santiaguero infuses an adventurous streak into the traditional music of its native Santiago de Cuba.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

featuring=Evan Ziporyn, conductor, and Maya Beiser, cello`date=Friday, October 12, 2018, 7:30 PM`desc=This rendition of David Bowie’s swan song album “Blackstar” stays true to and amplifies his themes of transformation.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

featuring=Scott Williamson, artistic director`date=Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 7:30 PM`desc=Opera Roanoke has cancelled its fall production of "A Little Night Music" and sincerely regrets that it will not be able to offer this musical in 2018.

featuring=Sarah Slipper, artistic director`date=Friday, October 26, 2018, 7:30 PM`desc=Dedicated to the creation and performance of innovative contemporary dance works from established and emerging dance-makers, NW Dance Project brings a program that will feature a selection of company repertoire.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

date=Thursday, November 8, 2018, 7:30 PM`desc=Three masterful genre-benders and the undisputed leading virtuosos on their respective instruments, Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, and Edgar Meyer move with ease among the worlds of classical, bluegrass, and world music.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

featuring=Conceived and directed by Guillaume Pigé`date=Wednesday, November 14, 2018, 7:30 PM`desc=Through physical theatre and compelling live music, “The Nature of Forgetting” tells the story of Tom, a middle-aged father struggling in the early stages of dementia, with creativity, joy, and heartache.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

date=Friday, November 30, 2018, 7:30 PM`desc=Martha Redbone, one of the most vital voices in American Roots music, is a multi award-winning musician celebrated for her tasty gumbo of roots music.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

date=Wednesday, January 30, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=Swing open the saloon doors, belly up to the bar, and lasso up some fun for the entire family.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

date=Sunday, February 10, 2019, 7 PM`desc=Drummer and composer John Hollenbeck is one of the rare artists who has mastered the tradition of big band composition while crossing aesthetic boundaries and speaking directly to the time we live in today.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

featuring=John Mauceri, conductor, and Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano`date=Friday, February 22, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=We celebrate the legacy of world-renowned American composer, conductor, and pianist Leonard Bernstein with this program commemorating the 100th anniversary of his birth.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

date=Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=When the ashes of a legendary social activist and feisty grandmother demand to be laid to rest, the trio of an American woman and two Scotsmen heads off on a transformative journey between the past and present,Scottish Highlands and Appalachian Mountains, in search of a fitting ending.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

date=Saturday, March 16, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=Celebrate St Patrick’s weekend with one of the world’s current leading traditional Irish ensembles.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

date=Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=”New York Times” bestselling novelist Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother and graduated from Cambridge in 1997.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

featuring=Kevin Deas, bass-baritone`date=Saturday, March 23, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=PostClassical Ensemble lifts up works deserving greater advocacy, believing that music of consequence should be contextualized in new spaces for audiences, old and new, in search of deeper paths of engagement both intellectual and spiritual.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

date=Saturday, March 30, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=David Roussève’s latest work is a blend of dance, music, video, text, theatre, and visual design that seeks to redefine biography and find the truth of the life of composer Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington’s main arranger and writing collaborator.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

date=Monday, April 1, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=Terry Tempest Williams has been called “a citizen writer,” a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

featuring=Richard Tognetti, artistic director, and Inon Barnatan, piano`date=Sunday, April 7, 2019, 4 PM`desc=Internationally renowned for inspired programming and the rapturous response of audiences and critics, the orchestra returns to the Moss Arts Center for their second visit.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

featuring=Music by Fred Hersch and words by Walt Whitman`date=Friday, April 26, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=Jazz composer and pianist Fred Hersch’s “Leaves of Grass” celebrates the life and poetry of the American bard Walt Whitman, whose work redefined American poetry and had a significant, life-affirming impact on Hersch.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

date=Saturday, May 11, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=Developed in collaboration with “SpongeBob SquarePants” lead writer Steven Banks, the performance tells a love story about two people and their quixotic quest to save an imaginary bird.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bundle&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

date=Thursday, April 26-Saturday, June 9, 2018`desc=Laurie Anderson's Invented Instruments features a selection of the artist’s invented musical instruments and unusual musical scores developed over a quarter century as key creative tools in the artist’s much-heralded career as a performance artist and musician.

date=Monday, April 30-Sunday, June 9, 2018`desc=Open (at the) Source is a unique collaboration between the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT), one of the seven research institutes at Virginia Tech, and the Moss Arts Center.

date=Thursday, May 17-Saturday, June 9, 2018`desc=Experience an evocative world of sound art in an exhibition that features the work of seven leading contemporary sound artists, including Jana Winderen; Robin Rimbaud, aka “Scanner;” and Olivia Block.

date=Thursday, June 21-Sunday, August 12, 2018`desc=Presented for the first time in Virginia, this recent body of photographs by conceptual artist and pioneering video artist William Wegman features a succinct selection of his work with his beloved subject, Weimaraners.

date=Thursday, August 9-Sunday, August 12, 2018`desc=Cube Fest is a spatial music festival with performances for the public and a VIP package of hands-on, behind-the-scenes, and creative opportunities for fellow revolutionists.